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2. Chinese furniture - Wikipedia

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   Until about the 10th century CE, the Chinese sat on mats or low platforms using low tables, but then gradually moved to using high tables with chairs. [ 2 ] Chinese furniture is mostly in plain, polished wood, but from at least the Song dynasty , the most luxurious pieces often used lacquer to cover the whole or parts of the visible areas.

3. Dalbergia odorifera - Wikipedia

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   Dalbergia odorifera, fragrant rosewood or Chinese rosewood, [3] is a species of true rosewood in the genus Dalbergia. It is a small or medium-sized tree, 10–15 metres (33–49 ft) tall. [ 4 ] It is endemic to China and occurs in Fujian , Hainan , Zhejiang , [ 4 ] and Guangdong .

4. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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   Tables were rare in ancient Egypt. The earliest Egyptian tables were carved from stone and made with very low projections to keep the table surface off the ground. Later, in the Old Kingdom, tables would develop longer legs and be braced with a stretcher between them. The most common tables were either round, square, or oblong.

5. Yixing clay teapot - Wikipedia

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   Many tea connoisseurs will steep only one type of tea in a particular Yixing teapot, so that future brewings of the same type of tea will be optimally enhanced. In contrast, brewing many different types of tea in a Yixing pot is likely to create a coating of mishmashed flavors that muddy the taste of future brewings.

6. Dalbergia cochinchinensis - Wikipedia

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   In 2015 seven Thai forest rangers were killed trying to shut down illegal Siamese rosewood logging. [5] According to the Environmental Investigation Agency, "Rosewood prices started to spike with the increase in Chinese millionaires and the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In 2011, EIA investigators witnessed a rosewood bed for sale in ...

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